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Holding Institution: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  1. Egon and Mina H. and Gerda and Samuel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Egon and Mina H. Egon H. was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. He recounts his family's proud German identity; destruction of their business on Kristallnacht; his father's decision to emigrate to Shanghai, the only place open to them; his father opening a grocery store; working in a metal factory; Japanese occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including ghettoization; assistance from the Joint and HIAS; food shortages and lack of sanitation; Allied bombings in July 1945; learning of the Holocaust after the war; and emigration to join uncles in the United States. Mina H...

  2. Henry N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry N., who was born in Z?yrardo?w, Poland. He recalls his very close family; education in Warsaw; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone with his brother; working in a 'kolkhoz' in Belarus; traveling to Izyum; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; his brother joining the Jewish police; smuggling food into the ghetto with his father; their arrest; his release; hiding with his brother on a farm in Lublin; returning to Warsaw after his brother's arrest; deportation to a labor camp; escaping during a partisan attack; recapture and...

  3. Lucy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucy F., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1923 and lived in Za?bkowice. She describes moving to Sosnowiec at age four; her family's affluent lifestyle; education in Catholic and Jewish schools; increasing antisemitism, including boycotts and school quotas; exclusion of her Jewish group from a Polish independence parade; an influx of Jewish German refugees; German invasion; balking at wearing an arm band; ghettoization in Srodula (suburb of Sosnowiec); forced labor outside the ghetto; avoiding labor camps due to her boyfriend's influence; liquidation of the ghetto ...

  4. Isaac Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac Z., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia in 1920, the oldest of four children. He recalls living in Li?va?ni; antisemitic harassment; participation in Gordonyah; leading Gordonyah in Daugavpils and Ri?ga; Soviet occupation in 1940; returning to Li?va?ni; German invasion in June 1941; escaping to the Soviet Union; deportation to Cheli?a?binsk; forced labor; transferring to Alma-Ata; teaching in western Kazakhstan; enlisting in the Soviet military; serving in Stalingrad; transfer to forced labor in coal mines in Novosibirskai?a? because he was born in a capitalist countr...

  5. Walter K. Holocaust Testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter K., who was born in Ro?hrenfurth, Germany in 1922. He recounts anti-Jewish laws banning him from high school in 1936; Kristallnacht; imprisonment with his father and relatives in Kassel, then Buchenwald; his father's and uncles' release as World War I veterans; his release to Erfurt two weeks later; forced labor in Kassel; emigration to the Netherlands on a Kindertransport in February 1939; entering through Oldenzaal; living in Rotterdam, Eindhoven, and Amsterdam; obtaining emigration documents for the United States in March 1940; transfer to Westerbork refugee...

  6. Richard H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Richard H., who was born in 1911 in Kandel, Germany. He relates his father's World War I German military service; observes that there was no antisemitism in Kandel (they were one of two Jewish families); and discusses anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of his family's business and car; arrest with his father and brother on Kristallnacht; incarceration in Dachau; hunger, cold and beatings; his father's release after eight weeks due to his German military service; his own release after twelve weeks providing he leave Germany; and living in Karlsruhe with his family. ...

  7. Gertrude M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude M., who was born in Germany in 1915. She recalls a happy childhood; living with aunts in Alzey; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending business college; working in Cologne; her father's arrest in 1933 as a Social Democrat; moving to Mainz after his release; her fiance's emigration to the United States in 1938; difficulties leaving Germany after Kristallnacht; obtaining passage on the St. Louis to Havana in May 1939; refusal by the Cuban government to allow debarkation of any passengers; futile attempts to obtain landing rights by the Joint; forced return ...

  8. Jack G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack G., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1924. He recalls living in Karolino?w; German invasion; Soviet occupation; re-entry of German soldiers; moving to the Soviet zone with his father and two siblings (his mother and four siblings remained in Che?m); living in Li?u?boml?, Kostopol?, then Kaunas; Lithuanian slaughter of Jews immediately prior to German invasion; detention in the Seventh Fort with his father and brother; his transfer to the Ninth Fort where he found his sister; their release; finding their brother; learning his father was killed; ghettoization; slav...

  9. Werner R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner R. who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. He recalls his father losing his job in 1933; moving to Zagreb; attending public school; their Zionist, rather than Jewish, identity; his father's death in 1940; German invasion in 1941; being baptized with his sister; living separately from his mother and sister because it seemed safer; his sister's escape to Italy; working with the partisans; and arrest by the Gestapo in 1943. Mr. R. tells of jails in Graz and Vienna; transport to Terezi?n; cabarets and opera; German efforts to preserve Jewish books; and transport t...

  10. William F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William F., who was born deaf in a small town near Sa?toraljau?jhely, Hungary, in 1910. Mr. F. describes his childhood in a large family (two brothers were also deaf); learning from his father to read Hebrew for his bar mitzvah; being self-taught because he lacked a formal education; becoming a leatherworker; his pride at living independently in Budapest at age eighteen; growing antisemitism; fleeing to Czechoslovakia in late 1937; courtship and marriage; and establishing a business in Pies?t?any. He recalls a Christian maid who helped him and his wife avoid deportati...

  11. Thomas B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thomas B., who was born in Izbica, Poland in 1927. He recalls deteriorationg conditions after German invasion; Jewish refugees in 1941 who spoke of gassings at Che?mno and the inability to believe this; Izbica's use as a collection point for Jews starting in 1942; the first round-up and transport, ostensibly to L'vov; learning it had gone to Belzec, where there was a big fire and terrible smell; round-ups thereafter; obtaining Polish papers; and attempting to escape to Hungary in January 1943. Mr. B. relates capture and imprisonment; returning to Izbica; transport to ...

  12. Ilse S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse S., who was born in Grottkau, Germany (presently Grodko?w, Poland) in 1925. She recalls attending Catholic schools; street fights between the Socialists and Nazis; moving to Leobschu?tz due to antisemitism; anti-Jewish boycotts of the family business; antisemitism at school; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; destruction of Jewish property on Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration in Buchenwald; her mother's breakdown; failing to recognize her father when he returned; her parents arranging her emigration to England with a children's transport; their instruct...

  13. Sora M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sora M., who was born in Danzig, Germany in 1928. She recalls living near Brest-Litovsk; moving to Paris with her parents in 1930; antisemitic incidents; visiting Poland with her mother in 1937; outbreak of war in 1939; evacuation to Mers-les-Bains; living in an OSE home on the Riviera while attending school in Boulouris; German invasion; returning to Paris in September 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; seeing her father in Yonne (he escaped from Pithiviers); incarceration in the Ve?lodrome d'hiver with her mother on July 16, 1942; escaping; hiding with non-Jewish frien...

  14. Regina R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1914. She recalls involvement with Zionist movements; working in the Jewish hospital; German occupation; humiliating forced labor; marriage in 1939; her husband's departure for Italy in 1940; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); deportation to Theresienstadt in October 1942 with her mother, sister, and other relatives; assignment to a work detail registering Jewish prisoners; asking Rabbi Murmelstein (head of the Jewish Committee) to allow her to go with her mother in May 1944; their transfer to Birkenau; separat...

  15. Manasha B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manasha B., who was born in Ryki, Poland in 1917. He describes his family's prewar life; antisemitism beginning in 1937; German occupation; ghettoization; forced labor; sharing food and shelter with Jewish refugees from Warsaw; separation from his mother and sister when the ghetto was liquidated in May 1942; transfer with two brothers to De?blin; building airfields; assistance from other inmates, Jewish police, and a doctor when he had typhus; deteriorating conditions after the Warsaw uprising in 1943; learning his two sisters were killed while working in a munitions ...

  16. Ilse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse L. who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1915. Mrs. L. recalls her sheltered childhood in a bourgeois family; her father's death when she was thirteen; expulsion from school in 1933; her uncle's desire for the children to leave Germany; finding a job in Hungary; joining her sister in Scheveningen, Netherlands in 1934 (her mother and brother also emigrated); her niece Renee's birth in 1937; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish regulations; joining the resistance; hiding separately, with family or resistance members in Amsterdam, Bilthoven, Apeldoorn and Loosdrec...

  17. Miriam W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam W., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; German-Jewish refugees arriving in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's disappearance during a round-up in February 1940 (they never saw him again); ghettoization in March; obtaining a privileged job from Aron Jakubowicz, a Judenrat official; theater and symphony until 1941; pervasive starvation; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation upon arrival from her mother, older sister, and twin siblings (...

  18. Walter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919, one of three brothers. He recounts attending a public school; participating in a social democratic youth movement, then a Zionist youth group; working as a locksmith; Anschluss; illegally entering Belgium; hiding with friends; moving to a refugee camp in Mechelen to obtain legal papers; training as an agricultural worker; corresponding with his parents; receiving papers; working in Bekkevoort and elsewhere; German invasion; arrest; incarceration in Malines; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor as a gravedigger; tran...

  19. Nokhim S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nokhim S., who was born in Mahili︠o︡ŭ, Belarus in 1923. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; celebrating Jewish and Soviet holidays; his brother's military service in 1939; arrival of Polish refugees; German invasion in 1941; his brother's return; anti-Jewish restrictions; mass killings; his father serving on the Judenrat; his brother volunteering the two of them for a labor camp (he never saw his parents or sister again); slave labor as a blacksmith for two years; killings and hangings; transfer to Minsk, then Lublin; separation from his brother (he never saw...

  20. Howard W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Howard W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. He recalls his family's strong German patriotism; their sense that nothing bad could happen to them in Germany; increased antisemitism following Hitler's ascent to power; Kristallnacht; expulsion from school; arrest; incarceration in Oranienburg; release due to intervention from his father's friend and a promise to leave Germany; traveling to Bratislava; detention in Patronka while awaiting a ship to Palestine; two months traveling on the Danube and Black Sea; severe weather; being shipwrecked on Kamilonisi; rescue b...